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Originally posted by macallan25
Chill out...holy shit. I just didn't expect MSNBC, Fox News, etc. etc. to get that wrong.
Furthermore, he was appointed, yes...which means he holds the position. He is running for the position again...so there really is nothing wrong with calling it a re-election. I really don't know why you insist on arguing the topic.
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Don't worry, I'm chill. It's not so much that I insist on arguing, but like you I would like to think that national (and local) news organizations would get it right, although experience consistently seems to be teaching me otherwise. He is running for the position for the first time. You can't be re-elected unless you have already been elected once, which he hasn't.
I think the fact that he hasn't previously been elected is relevant in this case. He has a career DA background, but not a political background. I suspect that had he run for election before, and had he had a better firsthand understanding of not only the legal side but the political side of being the DA, he might have been more circumspect in how he handled the case from the beginning. I doubt we would have seen all of the interviews early on. There would have been a lot of "no comments on a pending investigation."
Speculation on my part, of course, but's it's why I (and many of my collegues at the bar) think that fact that he has never been elected before has some bearing on the way this case has unfolded.
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Just saw on msnbc that one of the guys the stripper identified as a rapist (Seligmann I think was his name) allready has ATM records, cab records, cell phone calls, and dorm card swipe records that pretty much completely clear him of any wrongdoing because he was nowhere near the house at the time of the "rape".
Wasn't the stripper absolutely positive these two guys were the rapists?
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A lot depends on exactly how the timeline can be established, but he does seem to have a very good alibi. The cab driver has accurate records of pick-up, drop-off etc., and can positively identify Seligmann as one of the guys he picked up.
The accuser didn't make the identifications until a few weeks ago -- 3 or 4 weeks after the alleged incident. Many questions are also being raised about how the photo identification was conducted, and whether it was conducted in a prejudicial way.